"The most conspicuous characteristic of Hitler’s personality, which became through his influence the pervading spirit …"

"This view of a law and of its validity (we call it the positivistic theory) has rendered jurists and the people alike…"

"Of course it is true that the public benefit, along with justice, is an objective of the law. And of course laws have…"

"Positivism, with its principle that ‘a law is a law’, has in fact rendered the German legal profession defenceless ag…"

"To be sure, one value comes with every positive-law statute without reference to its content: Any statute is always b…"

"The concept of law can be defined only as the reality tending toward the idea of law."

"Philosophy is not to relieve one of decisions, but to confront him with decisions. It is to make life not easy but, o…"

"As it is the essence of justice ultimately to shape those relations in the sense of equality, so it is essential to t…"

"The validity of demonstrably wrong law cannot conceivably be justified. However, any answer to the question of the pu…"

"It is the professional duty of the judge to validate the law’s claim to validity, to sacrifice his own sense of the r…"